Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 410 459 319
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.02% 12.28% 16.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.88% 40.73% 49.00%
Number of salaries quoted 310 329 274
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,150 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.31% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,210 1,127 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.58% 30.15% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 625 632 552
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,625 £35,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £67,813
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -7 119 £55,000 +4.76% 127
Cambridgeshire +11 98 £40,000 -15.79% 92
Essex -4 77 £35,000 -32.37% 106
Bedfordshire +7 54 £31,000 -38.00% 63
Suffolk +10 41 £47,500 +43.94% 42
Norfolk -13 17 £70,000 +118.75% 37
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 20
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 51 (12.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (9.51%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.68%) Confluence
4 6 (1.46%) WordPress
5 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (12.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (37.07%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (22.20%) Power Platform
3 79 (19.27%) Entra ID
4 72 (17.56%) AWS
5 30 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 28 (6.83%) PowerApps
7 25 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (5.37%) SaaS
9 20 (4.88%) Azure AI
9 20 (4.88%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.15%) Snowflake
11 16 (3.90%) GitHub
12 13 (3.17%) OneDrive
12 13 (3.17%) Serverless
13 12 (2.93%) GCP
14 11 (2.68%) IaaS
14 11 (2.68%) PaaS
15 7 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
16 6 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 76 (18.54%) Firewall
2 37 (9.02%) DHCP
3 36 (8.78%) DNS
4 30 (7.32%) VPN
5 27 (6.59%) TCP/IP
5 27 (6.59%) WAN
6 22 (5.37%) Internet
7 21 (5.12%) LAN
8 19 (4.63%) Wireless
9 14 (3.41%) SAN
9 14 (3.41%) VLAN
10 12 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (2.68%) WLAN
12 7 (1.71%) IP Telephony
13 5 (1.22%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
15 3 (0.73%) Network Security
15 3 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.73%) VoIP
16 2 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.63%) Power BI
2 41 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.37%) Tableau
4 15 (3.66%) MySQL
5 13 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.46%) Redis
8 5 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.49%) Big Data
11 2 (0.49%) Metadata
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.85%) Git
2 15 (3.66%) JIRA
3 6 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) GitLab
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) NUnit
4 2 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.68%) Finance
3 19 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.15%) Law
5 16 (3.90%) Retail
6 14 (3.41%) Automotive
7 12 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.68%) Multimedia
9 10 (2.44%) Legal
10 8 (1.95%) Back Office
10 8 (1.95%) Publishing
11 6 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.22%) Marketing
13 4 (0.98%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.49%) Games
15 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (21.46%) Analyst
2 57 (13.90%) IT Support
3 46 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 46 (11.22%) Junior
4 42 (10.24%) Developer
5 40 (9.76%) Junior Analyst
6 38 (9.27%) Senior
7 37 (9.02%) Support Analyst
8 32 (7.80%) Architect
9 31 (7.56%) IT Engineer
9 31 (7.56%) Support Engineer
10 29 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (5.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (5.37%) 2nd Line Support
13 20 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 20 (4.88%) Data Analyst
13 20 (4.88%) Junior Data Analyst
13 20 (4.88%) Junior Security Analyst
13 20 (4.88%) Security Analyst
14 19 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.78%) .NET
2 24 (5.85%) CSS
3 18 (4.39%) React
4 13 (3.17%) HTML
4 13 (3.17%) jQuery
5 11 (2.68%) Vue
6 9 (2.20%) ASP.NET
6 9 (2.20%) Web Services
7 7 (1.71%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.71%) YAML
8 6 (1.46%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.46%) REST
9 5 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.22%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.98%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.98%) Node.js
10 4 (0.98%) SignalR
11 3 (0.73%) Kafka
11 3 (0.73%) Playwright
12 2 (0.49%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.66%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.17%) IoT
2 13 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 12 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.20%) Driving Licence
4 9 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.22%) Clustering
7 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (0.98%) iPad
8 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.73%) PKI
9 3 (0.73%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.49%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 155 (37.80%) Windows
2 118 (28.78%) Windows Server
3 35 (8.54%) Windows 10
4 32 (7.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (5.37%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.63%) Linux
7 15 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (2.68%) Android
9 8 (1.95%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.49%) Unix
10 2 (0.49%) VMS
11 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.24%) SUSE
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (18.05%) Customer Service
3 70 (17.07%) Agile
4 69 (16.83%) ITIL
5 65 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
6 54 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 51 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (12.44%) Mentoring
8 50 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (11.22%) DevOps
10 43 (10.49%) Analytics
11 39 (9.51%) AI
11 39 (9.51%) CI/CD
11 39 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (9.02%) Roadmaps
13 34 (8.29%) Service Delivery
14 29 (7.07%) Process Improvement
14 29 (7.07%) Technology Roadmap
15 24 (5.85%) Scrum
16 23 (5.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.61%) PowerShell
2 59 (14.39%) SQL
3 58 (14.15%) Python
4 48 (11.71%) C#
5 30 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.88%) PHP
7 14 (3.41%) Java
8 11 (2.68%) C++
9 8 (1.95%) R
10 7 (1.71%) Bash
10 7 (1.71%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.46%) VBScript
12 4 (0.98%) Bicep
13 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (18.29%) Azure Certification
2 62 (15.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 38 (9.27%) Degree
4 30 (7.32%) DBS Check
5 26 (6.34%) CompTIA Security+
6 23 (5.61%) AWS Certification
7 21 (5.12%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (4.88%) CompTIA CySA+
9 18 (4.39%) Security Cleared
10 17 (4.15%) CCNA
10 17 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (3.41%) SC Cleared
12 13 (3.17%) A+ Certification
12 13 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (1.95%) MCP
15 8 (1.95%) MCSA
16 7 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.68%) Accessibility
1 11 (2.68%) GDPR
2 8 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.98%) QA
6 3 (0.73%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) GxP
7 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.49%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 125 (30.49%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.10%) Hyper-V
3 24 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (4.15%) Docker
6 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.98%) vSphere
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (17.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.41%) SCCM
2 14 (3.41%) Terraform
3 10 (2.44%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.98%) Backup Exec
5 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.49%) Puppet
7 2 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.24%) Grafana
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 268 (65.37%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.02%) VMware
3 20 (4.88%) ForeScout
4 17 (4.15%) Cisco
5 13 (3.17%) Apple
5 13 (3.17%) Fortinet
5 13 (3.17%) SAP
5 13 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.68%) Palo Alto
7 10 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 10 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (2.44%) Veeam
8 9 (2.20%) DevExpress
9 8 (1.95%) HP
9 8 (1.95%) Workday
10 7 (1.71%) Google
10 7 (1.71%) Oracle
10 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.46%) Aruba
11 6 (1.46%) Dell